More Quotes by Terence McKenna
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
